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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 93. 14. Several Councils have not only cited several passages out of them, but pleaded them still as the Word of God, and enumerated the particular Books which constitute the whole System.
§. 93. 14. Several Councils have not only cited several passages out of them, but pleaded them still as the Word of God, and enumerated the particular Books which constitute the whole Systeme.
All this set together will tell any man of reason, consideration, and impartiality, that we have much fuller certainty that these Scriptures are the same which the first Churches received from the Apostles, than they can have that Virgil's, Ovid's, Cicero's or Plutarch's works are theirs; or that the Statutes of this Land are currant. Yea, were it not lest I be too tedious, I might distinctly show you the forementioned threefold certainty of all this: 1. A moral certainty of the strongest humane Faith. 2. A natural certainty grounded upon Physical impossibilities of the contrary. 3. And somewhat of a Divine supernatural attestation, by the continued blessing of God on the Scriptures for the sanctifying of souls in every age.
All this set together will tell any man of reason, consideration, and impartiality, that we have much fuller certainty that these Scriptures are the same which the first Churches received from the Apostles, than they can have that Virgil's, Ovid's, Cicero's or Plutarch's works are theirs; or that the Statutes of this Land are currant. Yea, were it not lest I be too tedious, I might distinctly shew you the forementioned threefold certainty of all this: 1. A moral certainty of the strongest humane Faith. 2. A natural certainty grounded upon Physical impossibilities of the contrary. 3. And somewhat of a Divine supernatural attestation, by the continued blessing of God on the Scriptures for the sanctifying of souls in every age.